Re: /lib/modules/kabi-4.0-0*

[Jason Baron <jbaron redhat com>]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Björn Augustsson wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:02:51PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > 
> > as you noticed, i avoided that part of your question :) 
> 
> Heh.
> 
> > We've really left 
> > this procedure up to 3rd party vendors, to decide where, and how they want 
> > to manage their own modules. To me, this is almost to a fault....i think 
> > the orginal idea behind the /lib/modules/kabi* directory was in fact that 
> > modules should be stuck in there so that they could be treated in a 
> > generic way. The kernel could export its own 'kabi' version and then all 
> > the tools, 'depmod', 'mkinitrd', etc. could know about that path. However, 
> > as you pointed out that work was really never fleshed out. ie the tools 
> > don't know about the path. I'd be interested in making this happen, if 
> > people think its a good idea...
> 
> Well, it would be useful to me, if it could be made to actually work.
> (Mr van de Ven's mail seem to indicate he thinks otherwise.)
> 

There have been some breakages, but they have been rectified in a timely 
manner.